Hi Patti,
The Happy Birthday greeting you see in my reply to MM's birthday topic is an animated gif. It wasn't created by using code in the post. Well, I did alter it's size by using code but I didn't use code to make the colors change, etc.
I found a gif website by typing birthday gifs into a search engine and went from there. A friendly word of warning, most sites ask you not to attach the gif from their website to where ever you plan on using it. They ask that you download the gifs you want to your own computer first and then start from there.
dom